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Nirvanix Accelerating Private Cloud Adoption Faster than Traditional Players
The private cloud has gained a lot of interest throughout the past few years, and most CIOs recognize the value of such a deployed. A private cloud offers several benefits traditional IT infrastructure doesn’t, such as greater cost-efficiency, the ability to migrate data between on-site and off-site locations safely, access to a secure multi-tenant public ...
Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org to Apache Foundation
Oracle has passed control of the OpenOffice.org code base to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator project. OpenOffice.org is Microsoft Office’s main competitor, and is one of the most popular productivity software products on the market. “Donating OpenOffice.org to Apache gives this popular consumer software a mature, open, and well established infrastructure to continue well into ...
HP Still Believes in webOS, Takes Apple Approach to Hardware & Software
Hewlett-Packard is currently reshaping itself into a more software-oriented company. Speaking at the D9 conference today, chief executive Leo Apotheker offered a glimpse into HP’s plans for webOS. It seems to be following the same course Apple is – providing full-bundle consumer products, including hardware and software – an end-to-end ecosystem. “We want to create ...
SAP and Cisco Team Up in Southwest Asia
German business software maker SAP announced that is it is boosting its Southwest Asia strategy, and will be offering SAP HANA on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) server platform for customers in Malaysia. The big data analytics trend is expanding on a global scale following the lad of the consumer data boom, and demand ...
NYSE Launches First Cloud Platform in Financial Sector
The New York Stock Exchange today announced the launch of a new cloud platform that lets traders lease computing power from NYSE’s new northern New Jersey locale. The platform, the first of its kind in the financial sector, was developed in a team-up with EMC and VMware. The Capital Markets Community Platform is designed to ...
Metamarkets Raises $6M to Boost Ad Big Data Analytics
Metamarkets, a two year old startup that offers publishers better inside data by analyzing the huge quantities of data produced as they sell, just closed its latest round of funding. The company has secured $6 million in the round, which was led by Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures with participation from most of the company’s existing ...
Juniper QFabric Simplifies Networking, Improves Security
Juniper Networks’ QFabric datacenter offering aims to simplify networks, and collapse the three core, distribution layer, and access layer with only one. The company has only managed to reduce these three layers to two so far, but according to Eric Doyle, that’s enough to not only simplify networks, but also improve overall security. Juniper has ...
EMC and Cisco Launch Cloud Center in Bangalore
EMC and Cisco have reportedly launched their Cloud Experience Centres’ in Bangalore, India. The EMC Centre of Excellence and at the Cisco Globalization Centre East are located in a twin facility, and are designed to accelerate research and let Indian customers test drive cloud infrastructure solutions offered by the two companies. “Manoj Chugh, President of ...
FalconStor Adds Two New VPs from HP and Symantec
Cloud storage solutions provider FalconStor announced it has made some staffing changes, and hired two new VPs. The company has hired former Hewlett-Packard exec Donna Williams to serve as vice president of worldwide technical support, and former Symantec director Abbas Meghjee as vice president of North America. Williams served as the director of software support ...
3PAR Proving its Worth at HP in Entertainment Sector
Hewlett-Packard has been making serious pushes to expand its storage business. Both former CEO Mark Hurd and current chief executive Leo Apotheker put an emphasis on staying competitive in this market via two main approaches: R&D and acquisitions. When looking at HP’s research and development spenditure, it has spent an average of 3 percent of ...